The work has been done by Michael Frey and his team in the OEM services group in Canonical. I think this is cool because I’ve seen a bunch of pictures and videos of Android running as the OS on a netbook, but it’s the first time I’ve Android mixing with other apps on a Linux desktop. It means you can get the best of both worlds.

The launcher has been updated to use the latest version of Clutter, and benefits from the performance improvements that the Clutter 1.0 release carries. In addition to that, the launcher now has a framework for plugins, which allow extending the home screen and adding new categories on the left (and example is the Files & Folders category). There’s not too much documentation at the moment, but I’ll follow this post up in the coming weeks with some examples.